The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

An Onld iDllCu.J mah o"ho
turkey which has been trained to draw
o sled.
An Icelander is in Washington
Territory looking for a place to locate
a colony.
The old court house at Woodbury.,
n. j., which is just 100 years old, is to
be demolished.
Governor Hill, is suffering from
malaria, with which the capitol at
Albany is said to be reeking.
General Beale, Of Washington, Is
said to possess a cattle ranch OF 25U,'
900 acres near Los Angeles, Cal.
There are ifty.one active volcanoes
in Japan. This accounts for the null
titude of hot springs in that country.
"A woman, Lucy Stone predicts,
will be President of the United States
at tile beginning Of the coming CEN
fury.
DIR. Mouritz recently sounded the
crater of TIE Molokai volcano to the
depth of $500 feet, without finding bot
tom.
Portland, Me-. shipped last year to
England 81, 900 barrels of apples, and
expects to send oyer 100, 900 barrels this
year.
The ordinary tariff for slaves, in
Morocco, varies from 81 to 96 for an
adult male slave to G15 or GIG for a
young girl.
One of Cincinnatti's chief INDUS
tries is the manufacturing of lead,
fifteen million pounds of which are
made every year.
"A gambler cannot be- indicted for
vagrancy in Texas, it is stated, if he
can prove that he makes a fair living
at his profession.
Hugh Barnett, of Edwardsport,
Ind, was so amused ut a pun made by
a neighbor that he laughed immoder-
ately and fell dead.
Near Toronto IS being constructed
the first steel steamer ever built In
Canada. The engines, however, are
being made in Scotland.
-Charlemagne at a very advanced
age acquired the art Of writing. an I'M
usual accomplishment, except among
churchmen in those days.
The Northern Pacific Railroad is
building a car which Is intended to
supply heat, illumination and pure
water to the rest Of the train.
There are over four hundred
saloons in Cairo, Egypt, where a few
years ago not one was open. Most of
them are owned by Englishmen.
"A rat hunt that lasted go days ter
minated recently in the vicinity of
Mount Vernon, Ohio. with a stated
total Of 1882 rats and mice killed.
A new industry recently developed
in Hancock County, Maine, is the
gathering of white pine and spruce
cones for French and German markets.
"A Virginia justice of the peace has
fined a fisherman 81 for ~contending in
open court that the moon had anything
to do with the ebb and flow of the
tides.
The fastest vessel in the world is
said to be the French torpedo boat
Ouragan, which is credited with a rec
ord Of about twenty-nine miles an
hour.
"A large, tame white rat, a great
favorite of the "Guvnor," accom-.
panied Mr.. Lester Wallack and his son
Harold on their trip to Enterprise,
Florida.
"A subordinate branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association Of
New York has refused to admit a
young man to membership solely on
account Of his color.
The task of eating ninety pies in as
many days has been undertaken by a
Racine wis man. At last accounts
he had disposed of his twenty-sixth pie
and wasn't feeling altogether well.
In Germany the %microphone IS
now used for tracing leak IN water
pipes, the slightest trickling Of the
water being made distinctly audible
when the apparatus is brought nearest.
I'm the United States every humid
dreth mar takes a college course; in
England, every five hundreth, Scot.
land, every six hundredth, and in Ger
many. every two hundred and thir-
teenth.
Mrs. J. W. Smith, of Orange, N.
j., during the past year, rode 2643
miles upon a tricycle., 222S of which
were made upon atandem tricycle. with
her husband, and 415 miles alone upon
a single tricycle..
-Gossipers in Catlin. H.. have
been given food for talk by the ap-
preaching marriage of a young lady
resident to a school teacher who
whipped her SO severely a few days ago
that he vas arrested and fined.
The damages secured by a Wash
ington man, who sued the District of
Columbia to recover for injuries re-
sulting from a defective sidewalk, were
quite disproportionate to his claims.
He was awarded one cent and sued for
$3.50 %